November 4, 2011  Just 16 hours ago, Mountain Goats main man John Darnielle found himself in a generous mood. "So I looked over toward the right and see that I crested 25k followers recently," he tweeted. …Read on

April 8, 2011 
When U2 kick off the second leg of their U2360° Tour on Saturday in Sao Paulo, it is expected to be the highest-grossing tour in history. U2 will pass previous record-setters the Rolling Stones, whose A Bigger Bang Tour earned $558 million from 2005-2007. U2's trek is also estimated to earn roughly $700 million by the time it wraps on July 30. …Read on

February 28, 2011 
U2's troubled Spider-Man musical could have its opening date delayed for a sixth time. Producers are considering pushing the March 15 opening to late June so they can make changes to the production, which would improve "its worldwide commercial prospects." [The New York Times]
At their New York City gig on Friday, Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House performed a gorgeous untitled new song. …Read on

February 12, 2010  Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold.
That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …Read on